Sunday, January 25, 2015

Snappy Nappy - Planning The Waterloo Campaign

We of the Hartford Area Historical Gaming Society are working out the details for our upcoming "Campaign in a Day" to be held Sunday April 26, 2015, using the Snappy Nappy rules by Russ Lockwood. We had a great time with our prior events, the first based upon the events of April 1809, and the second based upon August 1813. This one will depict the events of June, 2015. See the flyer below for the details of the event, which is open to all interested parties. I highly recommend the unique "Fog of War" experience of these events!

The event will be held at The Portal gaming space in Manchester, Connecticut. The Portal is directly across the street from its parent store, The Time Machine. It is superb gaming space, and ideal for this project. There is excellent lighting and a large number of 4 x 6 foot gaming tables available, most of which will be in use for this project. It worked very well for our 1813 event!

At present, the plan is to "Zoom in" one level, so that a stand of Infantry represents 1000 men, a stand of Cavalry represents 400 men, and a stand of Artillery represents 12 guns with crews. Infantry and cavalry units generally have 2 stands per unit, while Artillery units have one stand only. At that level, the game could easily handle up to 16 players. Alternatively, if turnout is light, the forces can easily be cut in half, which would put it back at the base ratios for Snappy Nappy.

April is a mere 3 months away - fortunately, on surveying the key players, it appears there is minimal painting etc that needs to be done before then. I do have quite a bit of painting (Prussians) to do for Ligny in July, and I still hope we'll do Waterloo as a tabletop battle in the Fall.